Date of Birth : Dec 30th 1973
At the age of 19, after a chance meeting with Hollywood manager Marvin Dauer in Minneapolis, Behr moved to Los Angeles. In his early acting career, he made over 75 commercials, and in 1995 landed the role of Tyler Baker in the racy Showtime comedy series Sherman Oaks. Sherman Oaks ran for two seasons until it was cancelled in early 1997.
After Sherman Oaks, Jason had a series of guest appearances in various television shows (Step by Step, The Profiler, 7th Heaven, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, JAG). He was cast in the ABC series Push, but the ill-fated show only aired a few times before being cancelled. Then Jason picked up a recurring role as the character Chris Wolfe in The WB’s series Dawson’s Creek. While filming the show in North Carolina, Jason read the script for a pilot called Roswell High — later shortened to Roswell — and felt an immediate affinity for the lead alien, Max Evans. Roswell had a moderately successful run on The WB for two seasons, then moved to UPN for its third and final season. While the show never hit it big in the ratings, the series had an extremely loyal fan base.Kim Coates, Jason Behr, Rogue Johnston, and Natassia Malthe in the upcoming film Skinwalkers
Since Roswell, Behr has taken on a variety of roles in independent films such as: Unsu Lee’s “Happily, Even After”; Jefery Levy’s Man of God, and Rebecca Cook’s Shooting Livien, soon to be released on DVD. In 2001 he played Dennis Buggit in Lasse Hallstrom’s The Shipping News, co-starring with Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, and Cate Blanchett. He also co-starred with Sarah Michelle Gellar in the hit Japanese/American film collaboration The Grudge. His two most recent film appearances were in the Korean CGI dragon fantasy D-War and Lions Gate’s reinvention of the werewolf tale, Skinwalkers.
Behr starred in the thriller The Tattooist, which cast him as a tattoo artist who becomes fascinated by the Samoan tatau tradition, but his desire to learn the ancient skill brings him into conflict and danger with the island mysticism and a deadly spirit is released as a result. The film was commercial director Peter Burger’s feature film debut. Filming started in Auckland, New Zealand, in September 2006, and finished in early November 2006. It was released in New Zealand on 30 August 2007.
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Skinwalkers ( 2007 )
The Grudge ( 2004 )
The Shipping News ( 2002 )
Pleasantville ( 1999 )